Fang Xi paid a 30% deposit on the first batch of houses from the Fang family.
The first batch of goods is 900 bottles of Xiangfa Fang (fragrant hair formula), with a wholesale price of three taels of silver per bottle. The bottles are made of Mingwa clay.
Mingwa (a type of ancient Chinese roof tile) is not something that ordinary people can afford. The production process of Mingwa is complicated, and making such a bottle is even more complicated.
To get rich young ladies, wives of high-ranking officials, and concubines to buy this bottle, Xiao Fubao specially commissioned someone to paint exquisite patterns on it, depicting all sorts of things.
Sometimes, custom orders are also possible.
The bottle alone cost one tael of silver.
That's a teacher's monthly salary.
The retail price is five taels.
One bottle can only be used three times.
With the addition of high-end flowers such as osmanthus and roses, ordinary people cannot afford such a fragrant hair formula.
In addition, I made some wildflower and gardenia fragrance formulas to make hair fragrance powder, which I put in sachets and can also use on the hair or in the bath.
Because the material was cheap, each one cost one tael of silver.
However, this is not something that poor people can afford.
It only made things easier for some of the wealthier small landowners and farmers. Poor families often used the juice of wild flowers to nourish their hair and make it fragrant, but the effect was not good.
Xiao Fubao, along with Niu Da, Shen Yu, and Niu Cuihua, calculated the family's finances together. The money from selling pearls had all been used to build the new commercial street.
Right now, all we have is the money from the other businesses in the family, and a large box of gold and a large box of silver that Master Mu brought in as a thank you gift to Xiao Fubao.
Jewelry and gold leaves are not included, nor are any jewelry and gold found in the house before.
The large box of silver that Master Mu gave her was about five thousand taels. As for the gold... Little Fu Bao was reluctant to spend it; she really liked gold.
"Including what we've earned ourselves, we have about twenty thousand taels of silver. Father, Mother, we can expand our business along this route to the capital." "Furthermore, we can open another slaughterhouse locally."
The Niu family has never run a slaughterhouse before.
The family raised over thirty pigs, but never even opened a butcher shop. This was partly because the Niu family's braised food business was doing well, and partly because there weren't enough people in charge of managing the household.
Now, more than a dozen pigs are about to give birth, which means there will be seventy or eighty piglets all at once.
"We can give it to Brother Sangyu," Xiao Fubao said.
She secretly glanced at her older sister and Sang Yu. Niu Cuihua spent every night with Sang Yu... minding the shop.
Even if I sometimes stayed overnight at the shop, I still had to bring my older sister back every day before going to the shop myself.
“Me? No, that won’t do,” Sang Yu said.
Niu Da thought about it. Although he wanted to hand over the business to his children, his daughters were still too young. Sang Yu had been working for his family for four years and was a good person. His two younger siblings were also ambitious and good children.
Why not let him give it a try?
“Okay, but where would be a good place to build this slaughterhouse?” Niu Dadao said. “I’ll buy another piece of land and set up the slaughterhouse.”
"Two thousand taels will be used to build a slaughterhouse." "One thousand taels will be kept for our own use, and the rest will be used to buy shops. A shop in the best location in Jiangzhou will cost about three hundred taels of silver." "I don't know about the rest. Your older sister, your mother, and I are going to the capital." "Little Fu Bao, do you want to go to the capital to buy a hair fragrance shop?"
Little Fu Bao shook his head and said:
"Father, I'm not going. I've fallen behind in my skills. My master is leaving in three months, and I need to practice hard."
Niu Da smiled, pinched Xiao Fubao's cheek, and said, "Alright, then study hard."
He didn't care much about Xiao Fubao learning martial arts, since he was too young to really learn anything. On the other hand, Niu Baozhu's martial arts skills had improved a lot.
After all, he's three years older.
It's beneficial for girls to learn something.
"Boss Niu, Boss Niu, there's a letter from your family, it's from Jiangzhou Prefecture!" The messenger from the post station rode up to Boss Niu's house.
The letter was urgent.
The letter invited Niu Da's family to visit Jiangzhou Prefecture, and also invited Gu Yu to go along. The next day, the people and carriages sent by Jiangzhou Prefecture arrived.
There were 42 vehicles in total.
Everyone has one, including Niu.
There were three carriages in total.
Leading the way were Niu Da and his wife, Xiao Fubao, and Xiao Heng.
The second car carried Gu Yu and the Ji siblings, along with Xie Jinyan.
The third car belonged to the other sisters of the Niu family.
They sent a carriage to pick him up, so even if Niu Da wanted to refuse, he couldn't.
"Mom, what do you think Ji Ninghai really wants from us this time? Surely he doesn't just want us to come over for fun?"
Niu Dadao.
Chen Yu frowned and said, "Who knows? But it would be good to check on how the commercial street is going on the way."
As soon as Xiao Fubao and Xiao Heng stepped into the Tongpan Mansion, they heard a hearty laugh coming from inside. "You lost! You lost again! Ninghai, your chess skills aren't what they used to be!"
“It’s clear that the master’s chess skills have improved,” Ji Ninghai said.
"Sir, the guests have arrived," the servant said.
Ji Ninghai finished the game and stood up, saying, "The person you wanted to see has arrived, haha."
“I couldn’t very well go there rashly, so I asked you to bring him here. It just so happens that I haven’t seen the General for a long time,” said the person playing chess with Ji Ninghai.
What Niu Da and Shen Yu saw was a slender and handsome man who, at first glance, bore a striking resemblance to Xiao Heng.
The man's exact age was unclear, but his demeanor suggested he was either wealthy or of high status; moreover, even Ji Ninghai addressed him as "Master."
Ji Duo and Ji Ying rushed over, hugged the man tightly, and said in a coquettish tone, "Uncle-in-law!"
"Uncle..." Xie Jinyan whispered.
The men addressed as "uncle" and "maternal uncle" smiled and patted Ji Duo and Ji Ying's heads, saying:
You've grown taller.
Chen Yu and Niu Da stood there, unsure whether to sit or stand; Niu Da's legs even felt a little weak...
He wanted to kneel down.
Gu Yu also prepared to kneel down: "Your Majesty..."
The slender man quickly helped Gu Yu up, saying, "Scholar Gu, you must be exhausted from your journey. You can barely stand. Please sit down!"
Little Fu Bao peeked out from behind Xiao Heng's back with a pair of big, bright eyes like grapes. The slender man followed Xiao Heng's gaze and saw Little Fu Bao, and couldn't help but feel a sense of goodwill towards her.
It's truly rare to find such exquisitely beautiful little babies raised in ordinary households.
"Please sit down!"
"Master Gu, please have a seat."
The scene was quite awkward at one point.
Little Fu Bao felt so embarrassed she could dig a street out of her own hands. Her little feet were fidgeting restlessly. Xiao Heng asked gently, "Are your feet uncomfortable? Are your shoes uncomfortable?" "Put them up, I'll massage them for you."
Little Fu Bao shook her head and said, "No." Then she whispered in Xiao Heng's ear, "Big brother, that uncle was so strange. He kept looking at you."
Moreover, she was crying.
After a moment, she whispered again, "Little brother, look, our dad and mom's legs are shaking like leaves. Who is that person?"
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